Explain Why It Is Important To Help Children Develop Cognitive Skills
Chapter 5
1. Why is important to help children develop cognitive skills during the preschool year?
According to Rike, Izumi-Taylor, and Moberly (2008), it is the richness of a child’s experiences that directly affects the development of the brain. They say: “[R]ecent brain and educational research clearly shows these neural pathways can be made richer and stronger through appropriate early care and challenging experiences that take place in carefully designed, nourishing environments” (p. 23). The learning centers you arranged according to ideas in Chapter 3 have set the stage. The activities you and the children carry out can provide the experiences.
2. How do children use their senses to explore the world around them?
Preschool children are born explorers. Even as infants, they come with all the necessary equipment to be great …show more content…
What is metacognition, and how cab you help children to use it?
Metacognition is thinking about thinking. Adults seem to do this automatically. They pose questions in their minds like these: What will happen next? What if I do this? How do I know this? Why should I do this and not that? Do children also reflect on their own thinking? They need to stop and think before they answer a question or start in a new direction. You can help engage them in metacognition by asking some of the questions just posed.
In the carnation experiment the teacher asked the children, not what will happen, but “What do you think will happen?” when she stood the white flower in a glass of red liquid. The children hypothesized (guessed) a number of possibilities, which the teacher wrote down. The teacher then asked them why they thought so. Most had based their answers on their own knowledge or experience. They were not just shouting out an answer but were thinking about different possibilities. Picture books can also help children think about thinking if teachers choose appropriate books and pose thought-provoking
1. Why is important to help children develop cognitive skills during the preschool year?
According to Rike, Izumi-Taylor, and Moberly (2008), it is the richness of a child’s experiences that directly affects the development of the brain. They say: “[R]ecent brain and educational research clearly shows these neural pathways can be made richer and stronger through appropriate early care and challenging experiences that take place in carefully designed, nourishing environments” (p. 23). The learning centers you arranged according to ideas in Chapter 3 have set the stage. The activities you and the children carry out can provide the experiences.
2. How do children use their senses to explore the world around them?
Preschool children are born explorers. Even as infants, they come with all the necessary equipment to be great …show more content…
What is metacognition, and how cab you help children to use it?
Metacognition is thinking about thinking. Adults seem to do this automatically. They pose questions in their minds like these: What will happen next? What if I do this? How do I know this? Why should I do this and not that? Do children also reflect on their own thinking? They need to stop and think before they answer a question or start in a new direction. You can help engage them in metacognition by asking some of the questions just posed.
In the carnation experiment the teacher asked the children, not what will happen, but “What do you think will happen?” when she stood the white flower in a glass of red liquid. The children hypothesized (guessed) a number of possibilities, which the teacher wrote down. The teacher then asked them why they thought so. Most had based their answers on their own knowledge or experience. They were not just shouting out an answer but were thinking about different possibilities. Picture books can also help children think about thinking if teachers choose appropriate books and pose thought-provoking